I was reading CNN and after seeing the headline “Prominent atheist blogger converts to Catholicism” I had to doublecheck and make sure I hadn’t slid over to Fox somehow.
I had not.
I ask again, why is this news? People convert back and forth between religions or no religion all the time. Why is the conversion of a single blogger, who is certainly not prominent, worth reporting on a national news site? The only thing I can even venture to guess is that they view it as a small repudiation of atheism, and Christians in the newsroom just couldn’t pass up a chance to take a swipe at atheists. It seems awfully cynical to look at it that way, but I can’t imagine any other way this could be deemed newsworthy.
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